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[personal profile] riverbeans 2024-04-09 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
[i'm sure this will come as a SHOCK to shoma but charles already looks deeply unhappy over these working conditions.]

... Might as well try.

[starts approaching the man slowly...]
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[personal profile] solesuccess 2024-04-09 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh this is incredibly depressing, thank you. he's following along to charles, but since he's dealing with the man he'll just as slowly approach the woman to get a look at the tub and the hide she's working on.

does it seem like she's losing strength the longer she's doing this? also...i don't...like asking but this looks like cow hide, right? ]
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[personal profile] riverbeans 2024-04-09 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
[well, this is worrying in more ways than one. still, he steps closer to the man, before stopping a polite distance away from him.

he glances down at the baby-shaped bundle, before back at the man's eyes.]


... Sir?
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[personal profile] solesuccess 2024-04-09 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ he's trying to keep an eye on both what charles is doing and also what the woman's doing. do her eyes also have the same glassy appearance?

hands you my 2 i rolled as shoma keeps an ear out for what charles is saying to this man. ]
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[personal profile] riverbeans 2024-04-09 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
[the way he approached this man but now i'm like OH GOD WHAT TO SAY TO THIS MAN UNDER THESE TERRIBLE CONDITIONS

gently,]


... I'm from a survey corporation, investigating the plant's working conditions. [...] Are you all right?

[LIKE

CLEARLY NOT BUT]
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[personal profile] solesuccess 2024-04-09 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ this feels extremely claustrophobic. he's not sure he likes this, and he really misses his noise-cancelling headphones right about now. he doesn't move, and he doesn't react to the liquid on his legs other than a slight flinch at the smell.

but then the woman stops and shoma looks at her, trying to understand what the hell the problem is. it's...just water, right? ]


We're just here to investigate. [ he's repeating what charles is saying both as a back-up and to the woman herself now that she's a little more present. ]
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[personal profile] riverbeans 2024-04-09 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
[charles really wishes he was the expert in dealing with lost souls right now, because he is not. but this feels pretty close.]

... We're here to help, if we can.

[even if he feels guilty saying this, knowing that he may not, in fact, be able to help them before the mission is over.]
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[personal profile] solesuccess 2024-04-09 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ having the letters scratched in is a little disconcerting, actually. what was it the bull had said again? "dancing to the music"? he watches her, and he's about to address her when he glances over at the man who's speaking.

why is it bleeding. oh no. ]


Charles... [ it's almost a low, quiet whine, disconcerted and very unsure what they're supposed to do to help these people, gaze darting back and forth between both figures. is the woman even reacting to this at all? or is she just scratching her neck still? ]
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[personal profile] riverbeans 2024-04-09 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[he glances over at shoma, frowning, before back at the man.]

Hey, hey, careful there—

[if he steps closer, can he get a better look at the bundle? he may try and grip the man's wrist to get him to loosen up. oh no.]
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[personal profile] solesuccess 2024-04-09 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ "have either of you ever felt what it's like to have every person in a room look at you? stare at you? watch you?"



it's the vague semblance of paranoia that's familiar. that weird feeling that something's wrong, that everyone in the room is examining you under a microscope, that everyone's eyes are on you to see what happens to you next. that feeling like you're nothing but an experiment, something that doesn't belong, something different that's meant to be an outlier. that one false move and it's over for you.

the man's holding a rotten bundle of meat, and shoma's flinching because honestly the sound of squelching meat probably is terrible. but he's focused on the woman, watching her hands. he's. he really doesn't want to, but...he turns his head to try and glance over his shoulder to see what, exactly, she might be looking at. ]


No one should...?
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[personal profile] riverbeans 2024-04-09 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[well. charles is also extremely used to people staring at him but in a less traumatic way than whatever's going on with shoma so that's fine. he glances down at the meat bundle, before looking back at the man's eyes. he frowns. bad!

in any case, he keeps his grip on the man's wrist, though gently, as if trying to reaffirm that he's not here to hurt him.]


What is going on here? Can you tell me?
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[personal profile] solesuccess 2024-04-09 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ this is fine. the sound of silence is deafening, and for a moment he's stuck staring at this writhing mass of bodies melting together to become one. the sound of their cries it enough to fully distract him, though he knows charles can handle himself.

everything's bloody and there's organs and he's trying to decide what to do when the tendril appears. the thing about it is, even if she didn't glitch, he'd move. it doesn't actually help though. seeing her face (even knowing it's not real, this is fake, it's all fake (isn't it?)) is enough to make him launch himself forward trying to grab this woman's arm and pull her back from the mass, pushing aside tendrils as best as he can.

he doesn't make a sound. how can he when everything's buzzing too loudly in his own head? ]
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[personal profile] riverbeans 2024-04-09 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[okay. bad. bad!]

Of course things have to go to hell...

[he knows the suggestion was NOT to pull out blades on people except as a last resort but something is trying to vore him right now maybe so he feels like this counts. or, in other words, he's whipping out that plasma blade now to to slash at the not-man's face.

at the same time, he glances over his shoulder to see what shoma is doing.]


Shoma—!
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[personal profile] solesuccess 2024-04-09 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ shoma does in fact have baby strength, but he's got the power of spite on his side!!! sort of. he tries to grab the woman's--amame's--whoever's arm, pulling and trying to grip. there's a strangled sound of confusion and also alarm as the limb goes fleshy and limp in his hand. the tendrils bury this woman and despite his best efforts the thing wins in the end.

though that probably has to do with the fact his suit is now melting and burning, something seeping through and eating away at his suit and jesus that's bad. he pulls back, shaking his arm before he whirls around to see-- ]


Why is it always Arthur? [ he's going to lose his mind. but of course it's enough to watch charles get tongue-punched and he's once again trying to move except this time it's to charles.

wait. he has a gun. hold that thought, it's very obvious something is very wrong here, so he's pulling out the plasma gun to try and shoot the man (monster?) in the head to get it to let go of charles aaaaAAAHHHHHH. ]
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[personal profile] riverbeans 2024-04-09 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[WHY IS IT ALWAYS ARTHUR!! actually i said it oocly but you know what? charles will say it icly too, even though he has take a moment to catch his breath after being tongue-punched.]

Think I liked the Mariachi version better than this one—!

[the good news is that as past history has proven, charles is ruthless enough to have absolutely zero qualms about cutting down even something that wears the face of a loved one. even more so when it's some kind of fucked up monster!!

and his suit melting is very bad, so he's really not hesitating in trying to slice off this thing's split tongue as shoma also shoots it. BUT SHOMA YOUR MONSTER PLEASE!!]
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[personal profile] solesuccess 2024-04-09 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ well. between the sword and the gun we are now covered in acid and ooze and meat aren't we. that's gross! that's really gross, actually, and while shoma was focused on trying to get the tongued-creature out of range there are a lot of things happening, including him trying not to gag inside his own suit once the tongue's been sliced away.

the creature behind him is moving, and the walls are closing in and the entire room seems to be fleshy and alive and bleeding, a room full of slaughtered pieces and parts. tendrils catch his feet and it stops him from going further to charles, shaking his leg and trying to stomp on the tendril to free himself. the floor's slippery by now, overwhelmingly smelling of iron and something foul, but it's the voice that gets his attention.

and the hand. even if he wanted to ignore it, there it goes, crawling and stretching and they're running out of room to move. ]


Charles, the door! [ let's go let's go let's go!!! ]
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[personal profile] riverbeans 2024-04-09 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[at least they're very used to being covered in gore especially after that time lovelace exploded on them... but charles will not be flashing anyone today maybe as he pushes away the image of arthur falling apart like this. bad!

the voice echoes, and its sentiment is one that's uncomfortably familiar to charles, even if under different circumstances. after all, how many times have he and those back home wondered the same about all the tyrants they've faced? all the more reason he hates everything right now, but that's just another thing to put to the side. the mess everywhere is just a bit more pressing right now, actually.]


Don't have to tell me twice!

[swiftly, he sheathes the blade to take out his sword again for the longer reach, slashing away at the hands and flesh as he moves to follow shoma towards the door—staying behind him to watch their backs.]

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